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Rollingstone’s post office opened in 1860, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic, the Rollingstone Village Hall and the Holy Trinity School.

1860first post office
3on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
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How Rollingstone began

When was Rollingstone founded?

1860

The Rollingstone post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 678166 years
Founding year: the first Rollingstone post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Rollingstone’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Rollingstone came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Rollingstone.

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Rollingstone was founded by immigrants from Luxembourg. The city was named after nearby Rollingstone Creek. Sites in Rollingstone on the National Register of Historic Places include the 1869 Church of the Holy Trinity, its associated school, and the 1900 Rollingstone Village Hall.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Rollingstone, 1860 to 1869

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1860Born hereAustin W. Lord is born here
  3. 1860Post officeThe Rollingstone post office opens
  4. 1869BuiltChurch of the Holy Trinity-Catholic is built
By decade

Rollingstone, decade by decade

Today6 recent
PostOfficeRollingstoneMN2026PostOfficeRollingstoneMNRollingstone Community School and City Office2024Rollingstone Community School and City OfficeRollingstone Feed2017Rollingstone FeedHouse in2017House inBroadway and Main2017Broadway and MainHolyTrinityRollingstoneMN2009HolyTrinityRollingstoneMN
On the National Register

3 historic places in Rollingstone

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
3
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic
Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic, built 1869Rollingstone Village Hall
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic Revival1
Church of the Holy Trinity-CatholicGothic Revival · Built 1869
All 3 listings
Rollingstone Village HallBuilding · listed 2021Holy Trinity SchoolBuilding · listed 2026

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Questions about Rollingstone’s history

What year was Rollingstone founded?

The Rollingstone post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Rollingstone?

Three places: the Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic (listed 1984), the Rollingstone Village Hall (2021) and the Holy Trinity School (2026).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.